Les équations fondamentales de la physique

For thousands of years, humanity has sought to understand nature.  By exploring the world on all levels with the help of more and more complex instruments, we have succeeded in shining light on some of the great mysteries that surround us.  Thanks to myriad experiments, we have discovered the fundamental laws that govern the structure and evolution of physical reality and we know that nature speaks to us in the language of mathematics.  In this language, what we understand of the world of physics can be expressed in a precise manner without ambiguity.  Thus, the most artificial language turns out to be the most natural of all.  

The laws of nature correspond to equations which, for some, are images of scientific knowledge that have marked important stages in our perception of the physical world.  These equations make up some of the symbolic representations of this knowledge and, as such, are a part of our culture.  

In this book, Sander Bais adopts an approach that is both historical and pedagogical: he takes the reader on a voyage through the fundamental equations that make up the basis of our knowledge of the world of physics, clearly explaining their history, meaning and beauty.  

Sander Bais is a theoretical physicist from the University of Amsterdam and has devoted his studies to problems related to particle physics, including the quantum theory of energy fields and the theory of chords, but he also takes the reader on pleasurable side trips to many related fields.  His particular talent in making complex notions understandable enables him to efficiently transmit scientific culture.  

La humanidad lleva milenios intentando entender la naturaleza.

Al explorar el mundo en todos los aspectos con instrumentos cada vez más complejos, hemos conseguido esclarecer algunos de los grandes misterios que nos rodean. Gracias a multitud de experiencias, hemos descubierto las leyes fundamentales que gobiernan la estructura y la evolución de la realidad física, y sabemos que la naturaleza nos habla con la lengua de las matemáticas. En esa lengua, lo que entendemos del mundo físico puede expresarse de modo conciso y sin ambigüedad. La lengua más artificial resulta ser la más natural de todas.

Las leyes de la naturaleza corresponden a ecuaciones. Algunas de ellas son imágenes del conocimiento científico que han marcado etapas importantes en nuestra percepción del mundo físico. Estas ecuaciones constituyen algunas de las representaciones simbólicas de ese conocimiento y, por ende, pertenecen a nuestra cultura.

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